maullar
Spanish
Etymology
Variant of dialectal maular, of imitative origin, with influence from aullar (“to bay, howl”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mauˈʝaɾ/ [mau̯ˈʝaɾ] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /mauˈʎaɾ/ [mau̯ˈʎaɾ] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /mauˈʃaɾ/ [mau̯ˈʃaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /mauˈʒaɾ/ [mau̯ˈʒaɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: mau‧llar
Verb
maullar (first-person singular present maúllo, first-person singular preterite maullé, past participle maullado)
- to meow
Conjugation
Conjugation of maullar (u-ú alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Related terms
Further reading
- “maullar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024